West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

Union representatives said they believe the increase in prison overdoses are a result of drug traffickers exploiting mail ...

Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

Maine’s Department of Corrections says it's lost about $1.4 million in unspent funds, including over $1 million to a substance use treatment program that provided counseling, prescriptions and doctor ...

A man at the supermax prison in Florence who has been charged with killing another inmate may face the death penalty, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a fellow prisoner at the federal government’s “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, while ...

Trump administration will soon examine states not complying with its mandate to strip all federal prisons of gender reassignment surgeries and treatments, as well as housing based on biological sex.

The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against a federal inmate following the authorization of Attorney General ...

A federal grand jury is seeking the death penalty for a federal inmate charged with first-degree murder, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Correctional officers are federal law enforcement officers with statutory powers of arrest and the ability to carry firearms. The stated mission of the Bureau of Prisons is to “keep federal offenders ...

The Berks County Prison Board directed the warden to fully comply with a directive from the Trump administration for fear of ...